Re: Adding the "links" text mode web browser to the base system

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Aleksej Saushev wrote:

> As for text editor flamewar, it's you provoking it. Unfortunatly,
> Emacs, of any of the two existing branches, is the only usable text editor
> originating (to some extent) from Unix rather than DOS-Windows tradition.
> vi is for BSD fanatics, I have yet to see non-technical person who feels
> better with vi than with Emacs. Even system administrators want to use
> sane tools which vi is not. Their first packages include Midnight
> Commander, Joe, Nano or other similar tools to facilitate editing small
> files. _Not_ another vi, they already have one in base.

Oh god. You're the one who mentioned emacs, a word that makes a lot of
people cringe.

When I was a CS tutor, most students didn't give a crap about emacs and
just used pico. I don't like emacs much, but I'd rather people learn
emacs than pico (they used arrow keys instead of the control keys, btw).

Anyway, emacs is a framework I don't want to need on my computer.

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